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Art Subject: Body
Frederick Collier, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
A nude male model is standing in in the shade of a blind.
From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layouts and fine art work, Greg Gorman has dev...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Signed limited edition nude fine art print, Woman Model, Intimate - Caroline
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘ Caroline ‘
Signed by Ian Sanderson lo...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Masterplan - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Masterplan - 2021 -
20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Marilyn Monroe nude in pool, 1962 by Lawrence Schiller
Located in Chicago, IL
When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th century Fox set of Something’s Got To Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ned Brower Celebrity Loose Print Signed on Verso
By Greg Gorman
Located in Carmel, CA
Mint Condition
In Corners on mat with over mat
Signed on Verso
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
$800 Sale Price
60% Off
Moving 1
By Mona Kuhn
Located in New York, NY
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
1999
Signed and numbered in pencil, recto; Also blindstamped, l.r.
Toned gelatin silver print
29 x 29 inches
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$5,625
"Die Waldfee" Photography 39" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Kseniya Vashchenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Die Waldfee" Photography 39" x 31" in Edition of 7 by Kseniya Vashchenko
Not framed. Ships rolled in tube.
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 29.5" x 24" in
Edition of 7: 39" x 31...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Nude Paris Willy Ronis 20th Century French Humanist photography black and white
By Willy Ronis
Located in Paris, FR
Willy Ronis is one of the most famous members of the French Humanist photography.
Silver print on photographic paper
Hand-signed by the artist lower right
Stamp of the artist's stud...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Santorini
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Eyes and Stripes - underwater b&w nude photograph - print on aluminum 36х24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white photograph of a young naked women. The model's face and her classic breast are covered with sunbeams.
Original digital print on aluminum plate signed by t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Oui, mon Cul #11 [Les Foxy Femmes de Carmen De Vos] - Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Oui, mon Cul #11, 2015
[Les Foxy Femmes de Carmen De Vos]
30x25cm, edition of 7
Archival color print based on original Polaroid
on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH
305gsm - 100% cot...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
![Oui, mon Cul #11 [Les Foxy Femmes de Carmen De Vos] - Polaroid, Color](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/carmen-de-vos-photography-oui-mon-cul-11-les-foxy-femmes-de-carmen-de-vos-polaroid-color-for-sale/a_6523/a_86516521629161257941/carmendevos_15_ouiMonCul_11_print_master.jpg?width=240 "Carmen de Vos - Oui, mon Cul #11 [Les Foxy Femmes de Carmen De Vos] - Polaroid, Color")
Norman Parkinson 'Iman in a Jane Cattlin bikini, Tobago. Vogue, 1976'
Located in New York, NY
Iman at King Peter’s Bay, Tobago wearing a Jane Cattlin bikini. British Vogue, May 1976
Iman at King Peter's Bay, Tobago. Vogue, May 1976
Silver gelatin p...
Category
1970s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Elevate - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Elevate - 2022
40x50cm,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2022-2014.
Not mounted.
Kirsten Thys van den Audenae...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Nude Studies - Edition griffelkunst
Located in Cologne, DE
With a socially critical eye and Berlin humor, the prints by Heinrich Zille (1858 - 1929) capture the milieu of the "little people" around 1900. The fact that the famous artist was a...
Category
1890s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
An insipid notion (Triptych) Abstract nude color photograph
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An insipid notion (The astonished world) is a collection of unreal experiences caused by the feeling of late and inexperienced love, and the inability to fully know the experience of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Mauricio Bodegón Feb 1. From The series Frutas. Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mauricio Bodegón Feb 1, 2000 by Celso Castro-Daza
From The series Frutas
Color Unique photo collage
Sheet size: 27.5 in. H x 19.5 in. W
Unframed
Signed, titled and dated by the arti...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Squares - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Squares - 2021 -
20x24cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1048.
Not mount...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Leland III
By Jan Rattia
Located in New York, NY
Chromogenic print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
22.5 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
45 x 60 inches
(Edition of 3 + 2 APs)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, loc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Female Nude, Black and White Photograph of Woman in Forest, Kate #5
Located in New york, NY
Kate #5, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is an 8” x 10” signed black and white photograph stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate on verso (back of photo). Model, photograp...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
'Schwarzenegger Is My Idol 1' Limited Edition Hahnemühle Rag Baryta print
Located in London, GB
'Schwarzenegger Is My Idol 1' Limited Edition Hahnemühle Rag Baryta print
Edition size 10 only.
Large 20 x 24" inches paper size.
by Se...
Category
2010s Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dream
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,000
Nothing to do with my will (The Princess and her Lover)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Nothing to do with my Will (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007
part of the 29 Palms, CA project.
Edition of 10,
20x24cm.
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signature labe...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Rembrandt Series
Located in Sante Fe, NM
I cherish a the Dutch Old Masters. As a contemporary artist, I work with the female nude and portraiture, so I was enthusiastic when the Rembrandt House approached me to create a new...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Soft Dance II - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival print 23х17"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A black and white photograph of a naked young woman diving in a pool.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed by the artist.
Limited edition of 24
Paper size: 24x18"...
Category
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
El Negro 1/1 Escultura Griega. From the Series Guerreros. Photo Collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
El Negro 1/1 Escultura Griega, 1991 by Celso José Castro Daza
From the Series Guerreros
One-of-a-kind Photo collage
Sheet Size: 27.5 in. H x 19.5 in. W
Unframed
Signed, titled and d...
Category
1990s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Paris - Nude in front of Montparnasse tower
By Ghnassia
Located in Cologne, DE
Paris - Nude in front of Montparnasse tower
Category
1970s Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$588 Sale Price
30% Off
Sophie.. - Signed limited edition nude fine art print, Black and white, Model
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Sophie & Carl - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 5
A naked man and woman in profile kissing
This image was captured on film in 1998.
The negative was sc...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Untitled IX, From the Half Angels Half Demons series. Male Nude Color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The angel is a being that religion has bequeathed us as a sign of purity, innocence, and goodness, from the same source, we have been sold to the devil as the form that represents ev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Paris Opera Ballet dancer Patrick DuPond nude for 'After Dark', signed
Located in Senoia, GA
Nude portrait study of Paris Opera Ballet dancer Patrick DuPond for 'After Dark' magazine, 1983. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by...
Category
1980s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,250 Sale Price
30% Off
Color Polaroid ‘Sex Parts and Torsos’ by Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso.
Work comes with a Certifica...
Category
1970s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Polaroid
"Kenny in Love", Miami Beach, Florida, 2000
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Soft Dance - underwater nude photo - print on aluminum 12" x 8"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A black and white nude photograph of a young woman diving in a pool. The woman is coming from the depth up toward the surface and her body reflects in the internal water surface.
Or...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Metal
Montego Bay Fishermen 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Montego Bay Fishermen 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Fishermen at work on a beach in Montego Bay Jamaica circa 1940.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 40" inches / 101 ...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Ben)
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Ben)
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2017-2020
Signed and numbered, verso
40 x 30 inches, sheet
38 x 28 inches, image
(Edition of 3)
$4,500
28 x 22 inches, sheet
24 x 20 inches,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Charis Nude, 1934
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by Edward Weston's son Cole Weston. Stamped and signed on verso.
Framed with a grey mat and black wood frame. I have inspected the photograph and it is in pristine cond...
Category
1930s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$3,500 Sale Price
30% Off
Ned Brower, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in München, BY
Edition 25
Also available in 101 x 127 cm / 40 x 50 inch, Edition 10
Black and white portrait of musician and actor Ned Brower.
From personality portraits and advertising campaign...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled (Kneeling by Driftwood)
By Nick Turner
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
11 x 16.5 inches
(Edition of 15)
24 x 36 inches
(Edition of 10)
40 x 60 inches
(Edition of 7)
This photograph is offered by Clamp...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Female Nude, Black and White Portrait Photography, Kate #3 by Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #3, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is in the photographer's series "Kate." This is an 11" x 14" gelatin silver photograph signed verso (back of photo) by the Freed ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Male Nude from Numbered Nudes Series, multiple exposure signed exhibition print
Located in Senoia, GA
5203 4 41 1995 1/20. This is a vintage gelatin silver print, selenium toned, made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell and signed both on the recto and verso. Chosen by the ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (Kate #11)
By Chuck Close
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Chuck Close
Title: Untitled (Kates #11)
Year: 2005
Medium: Digital pigment print on Hahnemuhle Satin paper
Edition: 25; signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Sheet: 17 x 22 inches (43.18 x 55.88 cm)
Frame: 19 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches (49.53 x 62.23 cm)
Certificate of Authenticity included
For its September 2003 issue, W. magazine commissioned artists Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, Lisa Yuskavage...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Curvaceous - nude woman on bed
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed silver gelatin photograph.
Dry mounted on board.
Taken with a Rolleiflex on film.
Other sizes available.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$250 Sale Price
50% Off
National Danish Gymnastics Team: Earth #16
Located in London, GB
Toned silver gelatin print (printed 2003), , signed, dated and numbered (verso), edition '8/25', 33cm x 22cm (image size), (49cm x 37cm framed). (N.B. although this is an edition of ...
Category
1990s Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Wavering - underwater nude b&w photograph - archival pigment 35x23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of a beautiful naked model on her knees at the bottom of the pool.
Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed by the artist.
Lim...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
1960's Hollywood Photography by Lawrence Schiller 'Marilyn Monroe'
Located in White Plains, NY
'Marilyn Monroe, 1962' by American photographer, Lawrence Schiller. Digital pigment, Ed. 26/35. Image: 13.5 x 19 in. / Paper: 16 x 20 in. From the set of the film 'Something's Got to...
Category
1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Balance - underwater nude b&w photograph - archival pigment 24х16"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white nude photograph of young woman and her reflection in the water surface.
Original digital archival pigment print signed by the artist.
Limited edition o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Champagne - underwater nude photograph - print on aluminum 32" x 48"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater photo of a naked young woman wrapped in air bubbles. The photograph depicts only her body, the face is not visible. A very bright eye-catching artwork.
The pool was f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Metal
Breeze - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Breeze - 2024 -
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
inventory PL2024-039.
Not mount...
Category
2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Untitled (Brian and Carl Morphed) - Two Nude figures, Black and White Photograph
Located in Chicago, IL
Two nude males lie on a bare wood floor. The angle of the photograph suggests that their bodies have melded into one. The artist uses traditional photography methods shooting the i...
Category
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dancer Derek Rencher, nude, signed by Jack Mitchell
Located in Senoia, GA
11 x 14" vintage silver gelatin photograph, signed by Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the Jack Mitchell Archives with a certificate of authenticity. This photograph was from a se...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,200 Sale Price
31% Off
In The Box
Located in Carmel, CA
Printed 1993
Platinum-palladium print
1962, printed 1993
DIMENSIONS
image: 12 x 21.5 cm. (4 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.) sheet: 27.4 x 35 cm. (10 13/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$8,000 Sale Price
20% Off
The secret life of plants - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color, Women, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The secret life of plants - 2020
50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Engulfment, Mosquera 5. Nude in a landscape color photo.
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The first encounter I had with the abyss, was arriving to a place that does not exist, a point suspended in time where I am without being. An unreal world expands in front of me, eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Engulfment - Cartagena 9. From the series Engulfment. Framed
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The first encounter I had with the abyss, was arriving to a place that does not exist, a point suspended in time where I am without being. An unreal world expands in front of me, eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Prisca, Paris 1997
Located in München, BY
Total Edition of 15
signed and numbered
Also available in:
50 x 40 cm / 20 x 16 in
200 x 150 cm / 78.5 x 59 in
A black supermodel is lying on her side.
Thierry Le Gouès...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Black and White
Spring - underwater nude photograph - print on paper 36" x 50"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A sophisticated underwater nude photograph of a beautiful young woman wearing a veil of air bubbles.
Original gallery quality print signed by the artist.
Digital archival pigment p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Love Knot
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Coming from an earlier interest in portraits and street photography, my Nudes in Water are less about eroticism and more about body as the human vessel for our multi-faceted but brie...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Rafael. Nudes. Nude. Limited Edition Color Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Color Archival Pigment print
Ed of 10
For this series, he used elements such as water (emotions) to narrate a story. He worked with the color Blanco in the fabrics to communicate cl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Multiple exposure nude portrait study of male model Brahm
Located in Senoia, GA
Male model Brahm multiple-exposure nude portrait study, 1970. This is a vintage silver gelatin photograph made by hand by master photographer Jack Mitchell. Comes directly from the J...
Category
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,250 Sale Price
30% Off
Chance by Camille Brasselet - Contemporary fine art photography, woman, pastels
Located in Paris, FR
Chance is a photograph by French contemporary artist Camille Brasselet. It is a pigment print on Fine Art paper technique.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is a...
Category
2010s Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Rider. Black and White Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Rider, 2023 by Ricky Cohete
Archival pigment print
Image size: 30 in H x 20 in W.
Edition of 13
Unframed
_________________________
Ricky Cohete was born in a coastal city in Ecuado...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
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